I like a shower curtain for its softness. In our previoius house, we purchased a clear glass door. It looked great and wasn't too hard to clean but we also sold the house just a few months after installing it--who knows what it looks like now after a few years. But also, a year or so ago I read an article by a guy who had his shower door shatter while he was naked and helpless. Tempered glass won't break from a direct impact on its broad side but what happens is if the track becomes worn/loose it can cause an edge impact, and then it will shatter easily. I know it is rare, but it scared the crap out of me! He stood in his shower surrounded by glass with no way out!! Yikes. I don't think a curtain necessarily makes a room feel smaller--here's our ceiling to floor shower curtain...helps make our small master bathroom feel grand :) Here is a link that might be useful: Ceiling to Floor Shower Curtain

I suggest you cut off the hem (or at least open it and re-hem so that the hem folds up towards the outside, not the inside) and remove the suction cups so the curtain hangs more freely and perhaps with a little less contact to the tub sides. This will help avoid the problem in the future. But you didn't ask that! I think 180F will probably kill whatever is on the curtain, now, but it will be re-infested as soon as you start using it again. That red fungi is particularly insidious and it loves the fats in soaps and body oils. If the curtain is really pretty, perhaps you can get a vinyl liner and use that inside while keeping the one you just washed outside the tub. If you do this, cut off the hem on the vinyl liner and the magnets, if any. This will remove a potential growth site for the moldiness; plus shorten the vinyl liner a bit to get it away from the floor of the tub and keep it from sticking too tightly. And spring for the heavy duty vinyl liner if you go that route. The cheap ones tear out right away. That being said, I still get the red stuff on my liners in the summer (too cold here in the winter). So I wash the vinyl liners in the Miele at the highest setting along with a few old towels to give it a good scrubbing at the same time. If it's really bad, I'll give it a scrubbing before sticking it in the machine to loosen up the accretions. Then I hang it out in the sun. Don't machine dry the vinyl liners. If you don't have an outdoor line, just re-install it and set a chair in the tub to hold it away from the side of the tub until it's throughly dry. Now as to the black spots: I'm afraid they may be permanent (don't worry you didn't set them). Mildew is the very devil to remove, but you can try (assuming you're willing to risk a little color damage) one of the proprietary anti-mildew products sold for cleaning bathrooms. They are pretty fierce, and mostly sodium hypochlorite bleach - Clorox - and they may fade the dark stains somewhat, or even remove them altogether if you are succesful. BUt it's at the risk of fading the color, so of course, test first in a hidden place (like on the hem you cut off!) If color damage is a particular concern you could try straight hydrogen peroxide of the wound-cleaning strength (I think that's 3%, but it may be 5%). Slightly stronger Hydrogen peroxide used for bleaching hair (get at Sally's Beauty Shop) might also work, but at that point you'd begin to risk color damage. A day in strong sunshine would be another, relatively safe, thing to try as would lemon juice. In my experience, you will work your way up to the use-Clorox-or-not dilemma with mildew stains. But it wouldn't hurt to start out gently and see if you'll get lucky. Rinse throughly between testing the various potions, of course. HTH, Molly

You can use clip rings as you would on drapery, or a rod pocket, or grommets (some come that way, or you can add them - not hard to do with a grommet kit from a fabric store or craft store). You could also add ties or tabs from complimentary fabric or ribbon (and trim your hand towels with some of the same ribbon). Yayagal, I have to tell you that I smile whenever I see your name. When my brother was very little, he couldn't say "Leslie" and so he called me 'Yaya'.

I like the one Susan put in here from overstock but I would either find a similar curtain set and do 2 rods, all the way to behind the archway at the top and those stay open with a second rod for the liner.  For the liner, you may have to sew an extra amount on the bottom from a second liner to meet the length but maybe see if you can find one long enough first.  Inspiration picture below